Anguispongia alpina
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AnguispongiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Agelasida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Agelasida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Agelasida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Porifera
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Agelasida
Time the record covers
At most 33 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 233.6 Mya and 201.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Anguispongia alpina on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
6 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
2 formations
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The named rock units Anguispongia alpina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Anguispongia alpina and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Anguispongia alpina and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
214 taxa- Colospongia3 sites
- Gosaukammerella eomesozoica3 sites
- Parachaetetes3 sites
- Agathammina2 sites
- Antalythalamia riedeli2 sites
- Baccanella floriformis2 sites
- Bacinella irregularis2 sites
- Disjectopora gaetanii2 sites
- Distichophyllia norica2 sites
- Gigantothalamia ovoidalis2 sites
- Kashanella irregularis2 sites
- Molengraaffia regularis2 sites
- Ophthalmidium2 sites
- Paravesicocaulis2 sites
- Peronidella2 sites
- Preperonidella norica2 sites
- Radiomura cautica2 sites
- Retiophyllia defilippi2 sites
- Sestrostomella robusta2 sites
- Solenopora2 sites
- Tauristorea parallela2 sites
- Thaumastocoelia sphaeroida2 sites
- Tyanada variabilis2 sites
- Agathammina austroalpina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Anguispongia alpina, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
3 references- Hypercalcified inozoan sponges from the Norian reef carbonates of Turkey4
- Hypercalcified sponges from the Upper Triassic (Norian-Rhaetian) reefs of Sicily1
- Coralline Schwämme aus dem norisch-rhätischen Dachstein-Riff des Gosaukammes (Nördliche Kalkalpen, Österreich) [Coralline sponges from the Norian-Rhaetian Dachstein Reef of the Gosaukamm (Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria)]1
Each of the 6 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Anguispongia alpina was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Anguispongia alpina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAnguispongia through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Senowbari-Daryan 2009